As the wealth divide continues to grow, the richest will continue to care less and less about the rest of us.

Of all the things to pick from socialism, expecting the rich to care should be the last one.

Thanks for the feedback. I think there are no other options.

1. The US want to remain the hegemon but China will take the technological lead and thus the military lead soon. Some say already 2027. The US more or less openly plan a naval blockade. But how can they maintain it if they have to ship everything half way accross the world? So they have to beat China.

2. Also because of the shipping distance, China will always have more conventional weapons. The only remaining advantage is nuclear. Even robots seem to be taken over by China.

3. What else can be so abhorent that we need to push the surveillance infrastructure that hard? Freedom is the selling point of the West. Why should countries choose the West over China if we have the same restrictions? We would lose in the long run, unless we use the restrictions to beat China.

The war with China is coming and both the US and the UK want to minimize the impact of protests. It will be inevitably nuclear because China cannot be beaten conventionally. So people will feel a bit compelled to protest which could put to test the usual means of population control.

Downvoters, do you have a counter-argument? The US will defend their hegemonial position which will lead to war.

It’s about surveillance. The nudity is a made-up reason.

That being said, my very important stuff is backed up to more than one cloud provider, just in case.

The way things develop, you can’t be sure that you are not banned on all accounts at the same time for political reasons.

Mad Max was also a promise, or something like that.

Some comment mentioned that this is for visa free visits whereas visa visits already had that requirement.

I thought that had been required before. What changed?

What? 5% to 6%? That’s great and all but it’s hardly moving the needle.

It’s huge because the people who do the tech support in the families are moving.

It just shows how little society is anchored in reason. And people wonder why politicians don’t take them serious. People who can’t maintain structure and are easily swayed by group think can be made to believe anything.

Those are the fall guys. Where are the people of the MIC? Where are the ones with the water rights? Nobody needs Facebook to survive, but everybody needs food, water and medicine.

It gives them the opportunity to create their own tools.

There is also the question if you are working for some group. Hcf has provided numbers that refute your statement. Is there a reason why they can be doubted or do I have to assume that your statement was made-up?

People bake and learn basic chemistry. The baseline of general programming knowledge could be more than zero. It’s a fundamental part of our society.

Explicit programmers are needed because the general public has failed to learn programming. Hiding the complexity behind nice interfaces makes it actually more difficult to understand programming.

This comes all from programmers using programs to abstract programming away.

What if the 2030s change the approach and use AI to teach everybody how to program?

An Uber.

It can be true and people still have the freedom to create a socialist society.

The revolutionaries can also be “arrested”.

A country that regularly does regime changes will not be surprised by a revolution. I think there needs to be political change if the power structure should change. The interesting thing is that poor people in America probably still use more resources than the global average. Are people willing to support a change to own less?

And women want a 7 inch penis?

If you do so without changing the law, don’t you think the 1% will have the revolutionaries arrested first?